Ghana Floral Collection

Ghana Fantastic Floral Red as wallpaper

Spoonflower has a contest every week and I try to enter most of them.  A few weeks ago the challenge was to design a floral wallpaper in black and white.  I choose to base my entry on the some flowers and birds of Ghana.  I made several sketches of plants, animals and design motifs.  The result is this collection, Ghana Floral Collection, inspired by west Africa.  I am in the process of releasing the designs and they all should be available in the next few days.

It all started with this black and white design

The steel blue coordinates



Ghana Fantastic Floral Sampler

Fabric8

Fabric8, a fabric design contest, sponsered by Spoonflower and Kaufmann fabrics is up for voting over the next week.  The contest was to use pen and ink with watercolor.  If you click on the link for voting you will see that they were searching for a particular look.  My fabric, Love in All Seasons, did not make the first cut but I think it was a strong design.

I once read in a sewing book that if you improve your fit by 10% each garmet you will be sewing like a pro in no time at all.  I hope this axiom is true about designing fabrics as well.  My fabric is being test printed and will be available for sale in about 3 weeks.